Dimensional Rift Rider

Disclaimer- Well, of course you all know what it is I'm about to write...I do not own any characters or anime in this fic... I lay no claim to anything. And so forth and so on...

Author's Note- Time for the third chapter. Please read, enjoy, and, hopefully, review. Thank you.

-E-mails and things on a computer

' ' -Thoughts

Chapter Three -

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Makoto finally regained her view of the back of the building. She stepped back to her first position, so Usagi went back to hers. Makoto looked at the entrance and didn't like what she saw...A look of shock could clearly be seen. She started heading towards the front of the building.

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Usagi watched as Makoto ran off. 'Fuck.' was all she thought. She quickly skimmed over every inch of what she could see. She focused her view over to where Heero was positioned. She was even more shocked at the sight of horror on the perfect soldier's face. She quickly grabbed her sniper rifle and ran the rooftops towards Heero. 'Fuckity Fuck Fuck Fuck!'

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Haruka ran across the plaza at top speed. That's why she was given that position...She could run, fast. She could see Makoto running towards her. In between them...

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Minako screamed. She tried to stand, but a man was pushing her down to the ground. She kicked and through her arms out in every which way. But she couldn't knock the attacker away. Before she could register in her mind who was attacking her, she blacked out.

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Heero tried to aim at the attacker, but onlookers were in his way. 'Why would they just stand there and watch! Why not help?'

Usagi came up to him and quickly skimmed over the scene. "Shit." Heero explained what happened.

"Minako was sitting on the bench. That old man, the attacker, was sitting near by, feeding the pigeons. He quickly got up and literally jumped onto Minako's shoulders, knocking them both to the ground. I can't see anything else." Heero saw Haruka trying to push her way through the crowd. Makoto was doing the same from the other direction.

"Fuck. Too many people." Usagi removed the scope from her rifle and pulled another out of a backpack that she carried the sniper rifle to the roof in. Heero looked on in silence. Usagi put the new scope on and focused it. "This scope's stronger...I may be able to see through the people." Usagi explained.

What she saw frightened her. The old man Heero spoke of...wasn't at all an old man! The man looked to be in his early twenties...22. Usagi knew the man well. "Damn." She tossed aside her rifle and quickly made her way to the scene down in the plaza. "Chiba!" She screamed as she threw people out of her way. "Where the fuck are you?"

When she reached the center of the crowd, the same time Makoto and Haruka did, no one was there. Minako was gone, and so was the attacker. Heero made his way to the group.

"Hn." was all he said.

"Hn? Hn? That's all you can say? Minako is gone and that bastard took her!" Usagi turned to leave. "Go 'Hn' yourself!" and with that, she left. She ran off towards where her gundam was docked.

Everyone was left stunned. The crowd around them had dwindled down to next to no one. Makoto and Haruka decided to go to Michiru, so off they went. Heero was left alone. 'Go hn myself...Why that little...' He looked like a man on the edge. He ran off after Usagi.

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Usagi finally reached Moon Star, her gundam. She stood before it, marveling in its excellence.

"Planning on stealing it?"

Usagi turned, her handgun aimed at anyone and everyone. But it was only Heero. She kept her gun aimed at him. "If I leave with it, it wouldn't be stealing."

"You rather say that you would be borrowing it?"

"No. I own it."

With that, Heero fell silent. After several moments, Usagi hesitantly put down her weapon. They stared at one another for a long while. "Shouldn't you be completing your mission? Don't you have to protect Relena till the peace settlement is over?" Usagi asked, breaking the long silence.

"As you say, the guards can handle themselves. I'm sure Relena is safe." Heero replied.

"I think the real threats were aimed at Minako, not Relena." Usagi said, thoughtful. "Do you know what the threats said?"

"Negative."

Usagi turned back towards her gundam. "I see..." 'I think they were threatening a blonde...Relena's blonde, Minako's blonde...I'm blonde...What if Mamoru is looking for another girl...or...'

"If you're suggesting that the threats weren't towards Relena, then who?" Heero said, breaking Usagi's train of thought. "It seems odd that you know that attacker, called him by name in fact. What if you were really the one the threats were towards?"

'Possible...Mamoru does want me dead...and Minako almost looks like me, like a sister. What if Mamoru thought she was me, and took the wrong girl?' Usagi remained silent.

Heero walked up to Usagi. "Tell me how you know him."

Usagi raised an eyebrow. "And why, pray tell, would I do that?" She smirked and looked at him. When no answer greeted her, she climbed up her gundam and opened the cockpit.

She could see Heero run off and into the next dock over. 'Getting into Wing Zero?' She entered her gundam and left the colony. Sure enough, Wing Zero was following.

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At that same moment, in a secret facility on the dark side of the moon, a man stood before a cell. A woman laid across the floor inside the cell.

"Damn it Usagi! Where are you?" the man walked away and two soldiers took his place.

"I'll find you Usagi Tsukino...and I'll finish what I started back at the Core." An evil grin slide across the mans' face. "But first...I'll take care of the ones who contacted M about me." He walked up to a computer and stared at the screen. "Shouldn't be too difficult."

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Usagi had no clue where she was going. Once she was a good distance away from any colony, she stopped her gundam and just drifted. Heero had done the same. A beeping noise sounded throughout the cockpit. Heero was hailing her.

"What is it you want now?" Usagi asked, annoyed.

"What are you up to?" came the monotone response.

"Nothing...just drifting. Space is beautiful. Maybe if you just wake up outta your perfect soldier life, and pay more attention to everything else, you wouldn't be such a pain in my ass." Usagi snapped. She picked up her laptop and checked for e-mail. One. She opened it.

"I don't trust you." Heero said before she could begin to read her e-mail.

"Well, I've got news for you, I already knew that. You're tailing me through space. Tell me something I don't know." Usagi said.

She started to read the e-mail. It was from Dr M.

Starbuck, I am running out of riders to stay at the Core. Soon I will be needed to send out the training riders. I cannot afford to wait any longer for the Arkaine Crystal. How is the mission fairing?

Dr M

"Damn it." Usagi said just over a whisper.

"What?" Heero replied.

Usagi realized that she spoke loud enough for him to hear. Before she could reply, her sensors picked up MS headed their way. "That's what." She silently thanked the lord for the perfect excuse.

Usagi quickly took the controls of her gundam and prepared herself for the arrival of the MS.

"There's at least 20." Heero said.

"Care to dance with me?" Usagi asked, sarcasm in her voice.

"Love to." came a reply form one of the MS.

The battle began. Usagi and Heero used their gundams guns to take out the first onslaught on MS. More just seemed to come from nowhere.

Usagi quickly ran out of ammo. "There's too many for just two of us."

"I'm almost out of ammo. I'll cover while you make a break for it. You're already out of ammo." Heero said.

"Just because I'm out of ammo, doesn't mean I'm out of the fight." Usagi stated. She punched an MS right where the pilot would be sitting. The cockpit door smashed into the MS, the pilot would have been crushed.

Heero didn't reply. Usagi took that as if he were too stunned or shocked to reply. But that was all of the hands on fighting. Usagi moved her gundam's right arm towards the lower back. A dagger fell out of a compartment and Usagi immediately grabbed it. She brought the dagger in front of her just in time to block an attack from the enemy.

There was finally three MS left. Heero was out of ammo and using his gun to break through the armor of the MS. Usagi continued to use the dagger. The MS regrouped and faced the two gundams. Heero and Usagi quickly disabled the remaining MS.

"Nice." Usagi said. She took hold of her laptop again and started to write an e-mail back to Dr M. She quickly typed up a report and sent the e-mail.

"We shouldn't stay at these coordinates." Heero said after a moment.

"You can go ahead and leave if you want." Usagi said. 'I need to find a place with ammo...'

"If you come with me, I can get you ammo, and repair your gundam." Heero bargained. During the time that Usagi was silent, because she was typing to Dr M, Heero spoke to Dr J. Dr J thought if Heero could bring Usagi back to their secret base, that the Drs could interrogate her without the need of Heero's ongoing mission, which pleased Heero greatly. Dr J then ordered Heero to bring her back with him.

Usagi thought for a moment. "I could use the free repair and ammo." She didn't move from her position though. "But there's something you're not telling me." Her eyes closed in thought. "One moment you follow me as if I'm the enemy, and then you state you don't trust me. Now you're inviting me home as if I was a long lost friend. Why?"

Heero silently cursed to himself. 'She's smart...' "Keep your friends close."

"And your enemies closer." Usagi finished. She sighed and reluctantly gave in to Heero's offer.

Little did they know, while they fought, a deadly scene was in action.

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A man stood before the Drs. He held a semiautomatic gun in one hand, and a remote device in the other. The man claimed the remote was to a bomb somewhere on the base. Dr J didn't believe him though. Why would he blow up the base with him inside of it anyway?

This base was located in the mountains on Earth. No one was even in a 50-mile radius of it. The bomb wasn't a big issue for Dr J. This base wasn't their main. He smiled inwardly to himself, he was glad he had sent Dr T to the main base before this man showed himself.

Dr J didn't recognize him, and he didn't even bother to remember him, he knew he'd die, along with the other Drs. The man kept talking about someone named M. None of the Drs know of anyone calling themselves M.

"I'll ask on last time," the man said, "What did you tell M about me?"

"Sorry, but we don't know an M, and we sure as hell don't know you." Dr G said, standing his ground.

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In the silence that followed, a lone computer silently beeped to life. A screen opened and a woman was trying to find the Drs using a small camera on top of the monitor. She couldn't hear anything, which meant that the Drs couldn't hear her. 'Darn them! I have the information they wanted, why wouldn't they be there to receive it?'

And then she knew. She saw a man smirk at the Drs, who were all backed up to a wall. Some words were spoken, but she had no way of knowing what. Then the man shot his weapon. Several bullets sprayed out form the weapon and hit the Drs multiple times in the legs. Then man stopped and the Drs fell to their knees.

Hotaru Tomoe gasped. She wanted to turn form her screen, but her eyes continued to watch. The man shot more bullets into the Drs thighs, then their stomachs. Finally, after the doctors were laying on the floor, gasping for their last breath, the man was nice enough to end their suffering by putting more bullets into them, this time in the head.

Tears rolled down Tomoes' face. 'How could he?' The doctors were her only family. They weren't her family by blood or marriage, but she grew up under their care and thought them as her family. Dr J, who had found her, was like her father...More tears rolled down her face. She turned the computer off and silently wept for her family.

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Heero lead Usagi down to Earth. While they were entering the atmosphere, Usagi saw a familiar shuttle leaving Earth. 'Was that the same shuttle I saw leaving the one colony?' She pushed the thought aside and continued to follow Heero.

They landed their gundams in a mountain region. Heero jumped out of his gundam. He turned to face Usagi, who had jumped out of hers as well. "We'll need to leave our gundams here for a moment."

Usagi nodded. Heero began to walk off to the East, Usagi followed him and saw a metal door in the mountain in that direction. They entered through the door and Usagi was stunned at the somewhat pathetic base within. She expected it to be very large with many rooms and corridors. She thought that many scientists and engineers would be running around. What she saw though, was least expected.

It was nothing more than a large, somewhat dark room. Red lights hang high above them, giving them the only bit of light. She couldn't see anyone in the base, besides Heero. Heero was standing near the closed door they had come through. He hit several buttons on a panel, but nothing happened.

"What the fuck?" Heero said, pushing the buttons harder.

"What?" Usagi asked him.

"Damn lights won't turn on." He took out a switchblade from his pants pocket and pried the panels cover off. He stopped and stared at the wires.

"Well? Go ahead. Re-circuit the wires so the lights get power." Usagi said, but Heero just stared. "What's the matter?" She looked over his shoulder and saw a bloody hand shoved in the small compartment. It looked to be sawed off of someone. Blood covered the wires, which Usagi noticed were cut.

Heero immediately closed the panel and grabbed Usagi's wrist. "Stay close." he whispered in her ear.

Usagi did as she was told. She had put a handgun at the small of her back when she and Heero landed in their gundams. Now she was glad she had done so. She pulled the gun out and stared at her other wrist. Heero still had it in his hand. She raised an eyebrow, but Heero didn't notice, he was busy searching the large room for any sign of movement.

Usagi tried to pull her wrist free, but Heero only held it tighter. 'Jesus!' She said when pain ran up her arm. "Jeez...why so tight?" she whispered, more so to herself.

Heero pulled at her wrist as he started to walk away. Usagi had no choice but to follow. They walked around the perimeter of the room to a small cabinet built into the wall. Heero slowly opened it and found a flashlight. He turned it on and saw the gun in Usagi's hand.

Before Usagi could stop him, Heero pinned her to the wall with his body. "Give me the gun."

Usagi tried to slip away from under him, but it was useless. "No, get your own."

Heero still had one of her wrists in his hand, the other hand still held the flashlight. He put the flashlight in his pants pocket and grabbed Usagi's other wrist, the one holding the gun. "I hope the safety's on." Before Usagi could reply, he slipped his hand down to grasp the gun and yanked. Usagi held onto the gun.

Usagi looked up at him. "Didn't you bring your own gun? I mean, you don't trust me and all." Heero didn't answer, he tried to yank the gun from her again. "You bastard!" Usagi tried to get her other wrist free. "You did bring a gun!" She twisted her free hand until Heero's grip was loosed and she pulled her wrist free. She immediately put her hand to Heero's back and pulled him closer to her.

If Heero was a man that blushed...He would have blushed. Usagi's breasts began flattened against him. Her hand was near his shoulder blade, still pulling him closer. He could feel on of her legs between his, making her thigh come close to his...

Usagi tried to look over Heero's shoulder, but he was a bit too tall, and she was a bit too short. She slid her hand down his back and stopped when she felt the gun's handle at the small of his back. He tried to pull away, obviously now realizing what she was doing. She grabbed the gun at the same time Heero had pulled her gun from her hand. She pushed with all of her body strength against him, with one leg slightly behind one of his feet. He was pushed back and tripped over her foot.

As Usagi noticed him going down, she smiled in triumph. But that was short lived when she felt herself being pulled down with him. Heero had grabbed her arm before she was out of his reach. They fell to the floor, Heero was the first to hit, and then Usagi fell on top of him. He used his arm and leg to roll them over. Now Heero had Usagi pinned to the ground.

"Not bad." Heero commented her.

"Not so bad yourself." She replied.

They remained in that position while their heart rates slowed. Usagi was the first to try and get up. "Excuse me, but I'd like to be on my feet when whoever hacked off that hand comes to find us..." Usagi whispered to Heero. "I'd rather not wait and see what he'd do to us."

Heero slowly stood and watched as Usagi stood. He grabbed her wrist and tugged her back over to the flashlight, which had fallen from his pants pocket and rolled across the floor. As he was about to pick it up, Usagi stopped him. He looked at her and she pointed just past the flashlight.

Heero followed her gaze and saw what she was looking at. The only reason the flashlight had stopped rolling, was because it hit something. That something looked a lot like one of the guards that stood near the only entrance, the door they had come through. Heero put the gun into his pocket and lifted up the flashlight. He slowly moved the light over the guard and knew where the hand had come from.

Usagi ignored the wrist without a hand and stared at the man's head. Though the man's chest was facing up, the man's head was... well... the back of his head was facing up! His neck was broken so badly, that his head was turned 180 degrees around. Usagi shivered and dropped the gun in her hand. She brought her now free hand up to her mouth to cover a scream. Though she had seen a lot of injuries in her line of work, as well as a lot of deaths...she had never witnessed something like this.

Heero turned the light off and left it on the floor. "The hand was sawed off recently. We better be careful, whoever did this could still be here." He whispered in her ear. He picked up the gun she had dropped and squeezed her wrist for her to follow. She did.

With the red lights overhead, they could see only about five feet in each direction. It was enough for them to see a desk or chair in time to step around it. It was also enough for them to see the dead bodies of all the guards and scientists, and the engineers.

It took them ten minutes to search all but a corner of the room. As they neared, Usagi could feel Heero stop walking and stiffen. She moved to his side and gasped at how much blood came from the five bodies laying facedown in the pool of red. "Oh my God..." All of the other occupants of the base were killed without losing a drop of blood, except the one guard without a hand. These five were killed by a gun. Usagi could see all of the bullet casings from where the shooter shot them. Usagi stared at them and realized who they were.

The five bodies were the five doctors who had first built the gundams. She admired these men for their creations for peace. And it seems they were killed for it. Heero moved to a nearby desk and Usagi followed, Heero had tightened his grip on her. Heero picked up a piece of paper and read it.

Usagi read it as well.

I have killed those who tipped M off. I must be honest with you Usako, I was shocked you were the one they sent after me. I had thought you were dead. Tell me, does your shoulder still hurt?

Heero looked unsure of what to make of the note. Usagi's eyes closed. She made a fist with her free hand. 'That arrogant ass! He killed the wrong people!'

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Twenty minutes later, Usagi had jumped out of her gundam. She had decided to get changed into clothes for the night. The sun had begun to fall while they were in the base. She now wore a pair a sweat pants that were a bit too big for her. They sat slightly low on her hips and just barely touched the ground. She had on a white t-shirt that wasn't long enough to reach the pants that made an inch of her stomach show even when she was standing.

She walked over to the fire Heero had made while she was gone. He was still in his dark green cargo pants, but he no longer had a shirt on. He sat on a rock and reread the note. He glanced up when he noticed Usagi walking over to him. She sat nearby on another rock and tilted her head back to stare up at the stars.

"You don't understand the note, do you?" she asked him after a moment. When she received no answer, she looked over at him. He kept his eyes on the note. She sighed to herself and got up. She walked to him and sat beside him. "Did you hear me?"

He looked at her. "Who's Usako and M?"

"Dr M is my boss. She ordered me to come here." Usagi explained everything about the Core and her mission.

"And Usako?" Heero asked.

"I..." Usagi hesitated. She looked away and stared at the fire before continuing. "I dated Chiba a few years before he stole from the Core. His nickname for me was Usako..."

Heero glanced at the note again. He now understood it's meaning. All but the last part..."He thought you were dead? What happened to you shoulder?" He looked at her shoulders but couldn't see anything that might have been wrong.

"He shot me." Usagi said with such anger that it surprised her. She wanted her revenge, and nothing was going to stop her.

Heero felt something trigger in side of him. It was sadness, or remorse...It wasn't pity...it felt like...the need to protect...vengeance...he wanted to see this man...Chiba, dead. The reason why was what scared him the most... he felt an odd feeling towards Usagi...something he's never experienced in such a way before.

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Bwahahahahaha! Done! Finished! I would've had this posted sooner, but my electricity went out for like five hours, so I went to bed, when I woke it was back on, but it went out again because the light company was working on the problem that caused it to go out in the first place...well, but here it is! Read and review. I love reviews... but since I only have one reviewer...

THANK YOU RANDOMWRITER88!

Chapter four will be coming out by Friday night. I will be on vacation and not able to get to a computer to update anything beginning Saturday. I will be gone till the 13th or 14th. I'm sorry for the long wait between certain chapters...I will try my hardest to get the fourth one out before I leave. And then the fifth one out as soon as I come back.

Jewal